September, 1912 
Our Native Asters 
(Continued from page 152) 
of them are exceedingly beautiful and 
perhaps might be considered as improve¬ 
ments on some of our native species. In 
this country, also, most seedsmen list a 
number of varieties, many of them im¬ 
ported from abroad. All of those describ¬ 
ed in this article, except, perhaps, multi- 
Homs, can be obtained of dealers who 
make a specialty of native plants. Either 
spring or fall will do for setting them 
out. 
But any one who has access to the 
fields and woods need not have recourse 
to dealers to secure a supply of beautiful 
and charming species. Just take a walk 
or a ride along almost any country road 
in the fall and you will find any number 
of desirable kinds. They bear transplant¬ 
ing well, even when in blossom, and by 
cultivation they are greatly improved in 
size of flowers and abundance of bloom. 
They will do their part, too, by a lavish 
distribution of seeds, and in a year or two 
you will have a wealth of plants and of 
bloom. Coming into blossom when there 
is a scarcity of other flowers and lasting 
for many weeks, or until extremely cold 
weather, they are among the most desira¬ 
ble plants for the garden, and Americans 
certainly ought to show their appreciation 
of these beautiful native wildings. 
The Picturesque Garden 
(Continued from page 133) 
one can begin to enrich it by planting, and 
the planting must be strictly enrichment 
like the carving on a capital. The simpler 
the material used the more charming the 
naturalesque place is likely to be, for its 
beauty depends more on the arrangement 
of the masses and on their size and tex¬ 
ture than it does on their variety. Unity 
of effect should be the aim, and this can 
he obtained without seeking new or weird 
things. 
There are as many kinds of naturalesque 
gardens as there are kinds of natural 
scenery, but the place as it exists, no 
matter how unkempt or how injured by 
accident or by injudicious attempts at 
beautifying it, must be the basis of the 
new design. The building of artificial 
hills or imitation rockeries has no part in 
real naturalesque gardening. If such 
work is to be attempted it had much bet¬ 
ter be made formal. 
There is one manifestation of the nat¬ 
uralesque style which should be severely 
condemned. This is the type where every 
tree is different and where all are bound 
together by a viscous mass of shrubs, and 
standing shamelessly in front of the 
shrubs one usually sees a job lot of annual 
and perennial flowers of the gaudiest col¬ 
ors and most inharmonious sizes. This 
is. called a border plantation or a peren¬ 
nial border, and it is an unimaginative 
way of doing something that can only be 
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